Resources
Western Australia
- Location Information Strategy for Western Australia
- Western Australian Government Intellectual Property Policy 2015
- Premier's Circular 2009-07 – Copyright – Payment of Remuneration for Copyright Material Used for the Services of the State
- Public Sector Commissioner's Circular 2010-05 – Computer Information and Internet Security
Australian Government
- Open Government Declaration 2010
- One ANZ Foundation Spatial Data Framework, April 2014
- Foundation Spatial Data Framework
- data.gov.au
- www.australia.gov.au
- The Spatial Information Council (ANZLIC) is the peak national spatial governance body in Australia ANZLIC
- Open public sector information: from principles to practice (OAIC)
- Advancing Australia as a digital economy: an update to the national digital economy strategy
- Principles on open public sector information (2011) (Office of the Australian Information Commissioner)
- Government response to the Government 2.0 Taskforce (2010)
- Government 2.0 Taskforce (2009)
- Open public sector information: from principles to practice (Office of the Australian Information Commissioner)
Australian open data community
- GovDex - Cross Jurisdictional Government Data Community Forum
- The Government Data Landscape in Australia
- Queensland Open Data Institute
Victoria
New South Wales
- NSW ICT Strategy 2012
- NSW Open Data Policy – Sept 2016
- Open government policy Ministerial Memoranda
- NSW Location Intelligence Strategy March 2014
- NSW Foundation Spatial Data Framework (FSDF)
- www.opengov.nsw.gov.au
- data.nsw.gov.au
Queensland
- Ministerial statement
- View a range of spatial data and imagery through Google Earth Queensland Globe
- data.qld.gov.au
South Australia
- Commits the government to proactively release data Open Data declaration
- www.data.sa.gov.au
Australian Capital Territory
- Open Government website
- Community engagement portal timetotalk.act.gov.au/home
Tasmania
- Tasmanian Government / ABS "Stats Matter Strategy"
- What is open data? Peter Rice, Office of eGovernment, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Tasmania
New Zealand
United Kingdom
- Transparency Agenda
- Repository of UK Government information www.data.gov.uk
- Board set up by the Prime Minister to help embed the transparency agenda across government as a core part of all governmental business Public Sector Transparency Board
Canada
- Action Plan on Open Government - Canada is at the forefront of the growing international open government and open data movements. Domestically, the federal government is implementing a robust open government action plan and has sought to engage provinces, territories, and municipalities to work collaboratively toward ambitious open data goals for Canada.
- Open Government Directive – directive to government departments to maximise availability of online information and data.
- Open Government Licence - remove restrictions on the reuse of published Government of Canada information
- Repository of Canadian federal Government datasets Open Data portal
- Channel for public consultation on government matters Consulting with Canadians
United States of America
- Open Data Policy - May 2013 Making Government information resources accessible, discoverable, and usable by the public to help fuel entrepreneurship and innovation, and increase operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and improve services.
- Open Government initiative Commitment to establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration to create an unprecedented level of openness in Government.
- Repository of US Government information data.gov
European Union
- Open government - Increasing information and knowledge exchange, enhanced connectivity, openness and transparency provide new opportunities for public administrations to become more efficient and effective, provide user-friendly services, while reducing costs and administrative burden.
- Open Data – EC directive that will make all generally accessible (non-personal) public sector information available for re-use at zero or very low cost to users in most cases.
- The European Union Open Data Portal open - data.europa.eu
- Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community INSPIRE
International
- First working draft of the Open Data Standards
- Putting the "Open" in Open Data: Creating a Global Standard
- Gov.UK Service Design Manual - Open data principles
- Putting Government Data Online - Sir Tim Berners-Lee
- UK Government Open Data Whitepaper (2012)
- The Open Data Handbook
- Open Data is Civic Capital: Best Practices for "Open Government Data"
- The Open Knowledge Foundation - What is open data?
- The Sunlight Foundation - Open data policy guidelines
- The Open Government Data ebook
- World Bank Open Data Readiness Tool
- Global Open Data Index
- http://blog.okfn.org/2015/06/05/putting-open-at-the-heart-of-the-digital-age/
Open data measurement frameworks
Creating machine-readable data formats
- UK Government Service Design Manual - Choosing appropriate formats
- Resource formatting (data.qld.gov.au)
- An overview of file formats (The Open Data Handbook)
- Gov.UK Service Design Manual - Choosing appropriate formats (general principles)
- Gov.UK Service Design Manual - APIs (machine-readable formats)
- data.gov.uk blog - Local Spending Data Guidance (basic principles for financial data)
On CSVs
- data.gov.uk blog - Guidance: A very basic standard file format for data (CSV)
- Inside Gov.UK blog - Making transparency data more transparent with a CSV preview
- ODI - What is a CSV? A case study of CSVs on data.gov.uk
- School of Data: A Gentle Introduction to Data Cleaning
- Clean Sheet: Releasing data or statistics in spreadsheets
- OKFN - Overview of CSVs as a format
- Data Protocols: Lightweight Standards and Patterns for (Open) Data
Privacy
Licensing
- AusGOAL - Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework
- Creative Commons Australia - Learn about CC licensing
Government as an API
- APIs in Government (DigitalGov)
- Models for API driven startups built around public data (govfresh)
- The Open Data 500 (GovLab)
Digital Transformation
Further information for data publishers
- Australian Government Web Guide - Publishing public sector information
- ABS National Statistical Service - Data Quality Framework
- The Australian Open Government Data Toolkit (data.gov.au)
- Based on: Project Open Data (United States Government)